somethingdarker | Feb. 6th, 2010

Feb. 6th, 2010

( Bough )

Spray the cherry-boughs with light - Francis Brett Young "An Old House"

That twined elm-boughs hold - Emile Verhaeren "Les Apparus dans mes Chemins: The Gardens" transl. by Alma Strettell

A lively wren from the hazel-bough - "King and Hermit" transl. by Kuno Meyer

Glinting through the willow-boughs - Li Po "On the Banks of Jo-yeh" transl. by Arthur Waley

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( Bower )

Looks upon embowered darkness - Edgar Lee Masters "So We Grew Together"

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( Born )

Weigh down the wings of airborn birds - Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie "Forced Entry"

A ghost in born-again tatters - Amy King "The Marble Faun"

Dust-born, dustward led - Lionel Johnson "A Cornish Night"

May well outweigh all false-born things - "Vates" [The Continental Monthly v.3 no.1, March 1863]

Ushers the firstborn of the radiant year - Sri Aurobindo Ghose "The Island Grave"

Firstborn into a hurricane - Yona Harvey "Hurricane"

The foam-born breaths of salt - Zona Gale "Exercise in Spenserians"

Free-born bird with echo babbling after - Gretta "Lily Leslie" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]

The sly raccoon with craft inborn - Emily Pauline Johnson "At Husking Time"

All law-born years - George Cronyn "The Trail by Night"

Newborn.

Scattering our night-born ills - "Centos and Suggestions" transl. and arranged by Rev. John Brownlie in Hymns from the Greek Offices

From a seaborn eternity to a pistol crack - Agnes Nemes Nagy "Storm" transl. by Laura Schiff

Sky-born shadows mirrored on a stream - William Ernest Henley "Hawthorn and Lavender XV"

Roots tangled around stillborn engines - Fiona Lu "Turing Test"

Thrills with sap of sun-born wine - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "To Italy"

Reached the moon, upborn by geese - James Beattie "Epistle to the Honourable C. B."

Birth.

Reborn.

Unborn.

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( Boom )

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Put lengthier bondage on them all - Gordon Bottomley "Atlantis"

Badge of the bondage he's destined to - Anthony Euwer "Spring--1919"

Whose inmost soul hard bondage racks and wrings - Rev. James Gilborne Lyons "A Welcome Sacrifice" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.428, 13 March 1852]

Bondaged by the body - Claude McKay "Outcast"

The landscape's song of bondage - Natasha Trethewey "Native Guard"

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The boulevard is full of my steps - Major Jackson "On Disappearing"

Those mean little squares and boulevards - Mark Jarman "Tale of Two Cities"

Boulevards sprouting their haystraw weeds - Mark Jarman "Tale of Two Cities"

Rabbits leap in patterns across boulevards - Diane Seuss "Nature, Which Cannot Be Driven To"

The boulevard of broken glass - Gustavo Alberto Garcia Vaca "Had Been There"

The boulevards chosen out of ten years - William Carlos Williams "Berket and the Stars"

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( Boots )

One set of bootprints back where two had come - Lore Graham "Absence"

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( Bolt )

Eyes lock in deadbolt time - dg nanouk okpik "Twilight Pain"

To rob the iron-bolted tower - Thomas Clarke "Sir Copp canto I"

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( Bosom )

Despise starry isles in light embosomed - Kate Putnam "Excuse" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]

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Sapped in sour water of the bogs - Valzhyna Mort "Singer"

And the brown bogs will be quaking - "Roisin Dubh" transl. by Eleanor Hull

Slant willows by the flooded bog - George Santayana "Cape Cod"

Bogs churning with bullfrogs - Diane Seuss "Curl"

The brown bittern speaks in the bog - "A Sleep Song" transl. by P.H. Pearse

From this shore of bog and mire - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Flood-Tide"

Some elusive bog-buried Lucy - Mary Jo Bang "I Could Have Been Better"

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( Borderland )

Border.

Land.

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( Bottomless )

Bottom.

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( Borne )

Bureaucracy and blood-borne grudge - Linda Gregerson "Cranes on the Seashore"

This bullet-borne language - Brian Turner "Phantom Noise"

Powerless before the dawn-borne rains - Li Yu "[Blossoms of the wood have scattered]" transl. by Burton Watson

The vision of dust-borne darkness - S. R. Compton "On the K-T Boundary"

Wild as a marsh-borne meteor's glance - Sir Walter Scott "The Dance of Death"

Upborne awhile along the stream of time - Philo "The Tribute"

And frolic with the water-borne moon - Li Po "Autumn Cove" transl. by Burton Watson

The sound of wind-borne bells - William W. Story "The Violet"

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( Bond )

While the bondmen all are weeping - "The Kansas John Brown Song" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]

Unfurled for the exile, the bondman, the world - "The Northmen are Coming" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]

The bloodhound's hellish baying stills the hunted bondman's cries - George B. Peck "The Vision: Inscribed to Teachers to Contrabands in the South" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]

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( Bomb )

Where the grey bombers loose their metal thunder - Ruth Lechlitner "Night in August"

Camouflaged bombers on the ground floor of truth - Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie "Forced Entry"

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( Border )

Burning in Lent's black-bordered dress - Emily Pauline Johnson "Easter"

Daring deeds and ancient border-glory - Henry W. Rockwell "Mohawk: IV"

Borderland.

A borderless translation of errors - Ocean Vuong "Dear Rose"

Creep beyond the subtle borderline of sleep - Ann K. Schwader "Darkest Anodyne"

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( Borrow )

Unborrowed of the sun - Thomas Gray "The Progress of Poesy"

Interest unborrowed from the eye - William Wordsworth "On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye"

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Words lost in boreal winds - Lore Graham "Absence"

From the surf of boreal isles - Elizabeth Drew Stoddard "March"

The pale Boreal Child sang to the soul of Naught - William Albert Sutliffe "Song of the Spirit of the North" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

preserves the tar from a borealis - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "Bleeding The Calf"

Straddled the wings of Boreas - Stephen Vincent Benet "Wisdom-Teeth"

Sing to Boreas

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( Bone )

Backbone.

Squeeze the air from her birdbone body - Danni Quintos "Letters to Imelda V"

White as bone-bleached sun - Julia Bouwsma "Each Morning Drowns in Open Air"

What we need after so many bone-bright days - Charles Rafferty "After Hearing There Are Only 7,000 Stars Visible to the Naked Eye"

Bone-cold root of nowhere - John McCarthy "Pickup Truck"

Matches near bone-dry trees - Alise Alousi "Lynndie's Other Voice"

Bone marrow and unsung mantras - Fiona Lu "Turing Test"

Of this world's bone-shell - Dean Rader "Poem Begun on the Day of My Father's Funeral and Completed on the First Day of the New Year"

Sycamores peeling to bonewhite - Elizabeth Seydel Morgan "Without a Philosophy"

The curiosity of ghosts relating boneyard tales - Tobias Seamon "Near Life Experience"

Fishbone stuck to my throat - Lu Christófaro "I See You Too"

Crawl, half-bone, half-bruise - Samuel A. Adeyemi "Atlantic"

From our marrow-bone bodies - Diane Mehta "Gala Noise"

Into the neckbone of the past - Tina Chang "Lion"

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And believed the billboard's promises - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "Autobiography"

Strings him along in nightmare billboards - Russell Thorburn "The TV Guide as the Book of Job"

Nightmare billboards of horizontal gone wrong - Russell Thorburn "The TV Guide as the Book of Job"

Blackboard.

( Board )

How the sea keeps beating up the boardwalk - Mary Jo Bang "Think of Jane and the Regency Era"

Cardboard.

( Chalkboard )

Checkerboard: See Checker/Chequer.

Chessboard: See Chess.

As the dashboard races to a waiting disaster - Mary Jo Bang "Before the Absolute Perfection Dying Achieves"

Against the dashboard of stars - William Brewer "In the Room of the Overdosed, an Ember"

The keys are on the dashboard - Elizabeth Willis "Ephemeral Stream"

The wailing from under the floorboards - Toby MacNutt "You Are Entitled to Your Pain"

Beneath the floorboards of my thought - Michael McGriff "Inversion"

Entering the computer through the keyboard - Duane Ackerson "Infinite Zero"

Gave his motherboard its own mirror - Tamara Jerée "Warship Captain Application [Section 29.2 Saved as Draft in SAIS]"

amoebas in your motherboards - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "Spaceshp For Sale"

A year slid overboard in storms - B. K. Fischer "Economies of Scale"

Pasteboard riddles and commedia deadpan - Sonya Taaffe "Muse"

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( Boulder )

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( Bore )

A broken glass on the edge of boredom - Mary Jo Bang "The Disappearance of Amerika: After Kafka"

Boredom leaves crumbs on the table - Mary Jo Bang "The School of Knowledge"

Melted a little of itself out of sheer boredom - John Grey "Distant People Gravitate to Distant Worlds"

A mirror reflects out of boredom - Salik Shah "Straw-Fitted Elephants"

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( Bounty/Bountiful )

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( Book )

The bookshelves connected heaven and earth - Lisel Mueller "Curriculum Vitae"

Standing hushed in the aisles of bookstores - Allison Joseph "Notebooks"

The gray wizard's conjuring-book - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

Make a cookbook where poison tastes good - Stephanie Heit "Mad Flora and Fauna Catalog: Kudzu"

Tear up his copy-books to fabricate a kite - Henry S. Leigh "A Nursery Legend"

A ghastly stain in the Domesday book - Henry S. Leigh "The Plot of a Romance"

In the handbook of heartbreak - Wallace Stevens "Madame la Fleurie"

Making each stone a matchbook - Paul Tran "Taurus Sun, Cancer Moon, Scorpio Rising"

Wrapped in a notebook leaking light - Duane Ackerson "Taking Back the Moon"

Make my notebooks into sheaves of grass - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "Autobiography"

Pages from my notebook of the damned - Arthur Rimbaud "A Season in Hell" transl. by Bertrand Mathieu

A pocketbook full of bone readers - Tyree Daye "There's a Whole Lot of Love round Here"

Bury my soul in a scrapbook - Leonard Cohen "Take this Waltz"

Not all records are for the scrapbook - Alberto Rios "Taking Your Olympic Measure"

Kept a scrapbook of ghost stories - Jennifer Wong "Calling the dead"

In Memory's sketchbook caught - James Russell Lowell "Fitz Adam's Story"

The world remained a storybook - Caitriona O'Reilly "The Airship Era"

A spill of storybook umber - Kiki Petrosino "Approaching the Smith Family Graveyard"

Not the textbook definition - KaNikki Jakarta "A Wading"

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( Block )

On the auction-block of Manifest Destiny - James Baldwin "Song (for Skip)"

Languages beyond borders and blockades - Zeina Azzam "Nine Spice Mix"

This binary roadblock - Monica de la Torre "Intimacy in Discourse: A Comedy in Three Movements"

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( Boon )

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( Bold )

Embolden gold and sable leopards - George Cronyn "Dionysus Eleutherios: The Answer"

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( Box )

The pixilated arcs of a black box - Robert Frazier "A Rebel's Pale Eyes ..."

A box car some train has forgotten - Langston Hughes "Railroad Avenue"

Jewelry box for lone earrings - Julie Babcock "Singles"

Flip off this lightbox and its scroll of dread - Nickole Brown "A Prayer to Talk to Animals"

Memories in iron lock boxes - Naomi Shihab Nye "Patience Conversations"

In the mailboxes of the arrested - Ilya Kaminsky "When Momma Galya First Protested"

The heart's a dollar music box - Jordan Rice "Vanishment"

Space's Pandora-box loosed its wonders upon him - William Rose Benét "Mad Blake"

A soapbox famous for its speeches - Charles Simic "Le Beau Monde"

A toolbox to support purgatory - Mary Jo Bang "A Equals All of a Sudden"

The toy-boxes time plays with - John Gould Fletcher "Toy-Boxes"

Like a collector of voice boxes - Raymond Antrobus "Samantha"

A gift for our unboxing - Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon "Pole| |Sport"

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( Boast )

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( Bottle )

These mottled green and hard-bottled mineral songs - Catherine Bowman "Pears"

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( Boundless )

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( Bouquet )

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( Boy )

Before the paperboys can deliver the day wrapped in plastic - Duane Ackerson "The Great Gnome Escape"

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( Body )

Entrusted to the bodyguard of the temple - Manal Kara "[Country people enjoy dogs ...]"

In shadows not yet bodiless - Russell W. Davenport "Poems III"

Body-surfed the hollow waves - Mary Karr "For My Children"

Embody.

Have solved the mind-body problem - Terese Mason Pierre "A New Face"

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( Boat )

Crows flapped down to keep the boatman company - Su Tung-p'o "Written on a Painting Entitled 'Misty Yangtze and Folded Hills' in the Collection of Wang Ting-kuo" transl. by Burton Watson

The boat-yard of the last gondola maker - Campbell McGrath "Joseph Brodsky in Venice (1981)"

A toy dog left on a rowboat adrift - Mary Jo Bang "Today You're the Still Photographer"

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( Both )

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( Bottom )

A heart attack on the bottom line - Russell Brakefield "Field Recordings"

Determined to drag one down to their bottom line - G. O. Clark "Some Zombies One Should Avoid"

Bottomless.

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( Bound )

Boundless.

Beyond the heavy brass-bound door - David C. Kopaska-Merkel and Kendall Evans and Mike Allen "Rattlebox III"

Beneath the iron bell close-bound - Wilfrid Wilson Gibson "The Slag"

A haughty old copper-bound albatross - John Masefield "Sea-Change"

Earthbound.

Many a homebound ship - Walter S. Percy "I'll Be Watching on the Shore"

Icicle tears from the ice-bound years - Louise Morey Bowman "The Dead Violin"

The sky with an icebound sun - Ghojimuhemmed Muhemmed "History" transl. by Joshua L. Freeman

Makes a nest of inbound hulls and masts - Russell Brakefield "Field Recordings"

The outbound keels of all my fleet - Charles Bertram Johnson "Serenity"

To explore the sky-bound marches - Clive Bell "To A.V.S. with a Book"

( Spell-Bound )

Embroideries of starbound silver - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"

On earth's time-bounded shore - Oliver Optic "Lizzie"

Unbound.

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( Boundary )

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( Bow )

Hangs by a bowstring from heaven's vault - Andy Miller "Diana"

A line of shivering violin-bows - Beatrice Ravenel "The Humming-Bird"

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( Bowl )

The dune bowling down meteors - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"

The hemlock-bowl for Athen's pride - Mrs J. Webb "Lines to Time" (The Knickerbocker v.23:2, Feb. 1844)

Retire to that soup-bowl of oblivion - Timothy Donnelly "To His Own Device"

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